SAMS Teach Yourself Red Hat® Fedora™ 4 Linux® All in One

Workshop

The Workshop is designed to help you anticipate possible questions, review what you've learned, and begin learning how to put your knowledge into practice.

Quiz

1:	How do you start the binary calculator in interactive mode?
2:	How would you return all matches for the word Johnson from a text list called mylist.txt, sorted based on the second column, in reverse alphabetical order, and print the output?

Answers

A1:	Type bc at the command prompt and press Enter.
A2:	The command would be grep Johnson mylist.txt | sort -k 2 -r | lpr

Activities

1. Try writing a bc script to calculate the area of a circle, after prompting the user for the necessary numbers.

2. Use your favorite editor to create a text database containing your personal phone number list ...